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Brandeis violently shut down a rally for Palestine after banning the SJP chapter. Waltham and Brandeis police arrested seven people including students, community members, and an NLG legal observer.
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Northeastern arrests happening with NUPD and Boston police.
@MayorWu
tried to tell us yesterday BPD wouldn't be involved. They removed journalists to prevent coverage of this brutality.
Free Palestine and Fuck the Police!
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All of this posturing disappeared the moment she became Mayor. She has reversed every stance on policing.
Why did we need to have so many law enforcement officers in general & so many in particular with riot gear? My biggest takeaway from the videos & feedback is that this reinforces why militarization of police is harmful, esp w protest/large crowd situations
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At least 70 people - students staff and community members - brutally arrested by Boston police at the Emerson encampment tonight. Jail and court support updates soon. Some students still resisting in the street
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On Wednesday, Sayed Arif Faisal, a member of the Bangladeshi community, was murdered by Cambridge Police. He was 20, a college student, the only child of his family, and in clear distress. We are mourning with & supporting the community in demanding Justice for Arif! 3 actions ⬇️
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This is a historic day for Boston where the budget conversation is really focused on shifting resources away from police and towards community. And the conversation will not end here! We want community control over budgeting.
#DefundBosCops
They vote at noon!
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Enjoying the beautiful weather after you arrested everyone protesting the Zionist genocide in Palestine???
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Hi
@marty_walsh
! Do you mean reallocating $40m from BPD to community focused parts of the budget like youth jobs, public health, and housing? Or just moving money around within BPD's part of the budget? At least 10k people want to know!
#DefundPolice
#DefundBoscops
Walsh: City will look at reallocating parts of police budget
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Still bailing out over 100 people from Emerson last night and northeastern police are poised to arrest students that started a camp this morning
At least 70 people - students staff and community members - brutally arrested by Boston police at the Emerson encampment tonight. Jail and court support updates soon. Some students still resisting in the street
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It seems
@NPR
has mistaken
@SenWarren
tweeting "stop bombing now" with actually calling for a ceasefire. We have attempted meeting with her in Boston & DC, thousands have called, emailed, and rallied asking her for the bare minimum. INTRODUCE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TODAY.
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Please share widely
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Here's your reading and first steps on cutting Boston police spending! Let your city councillors know ASAP where money should actually go to support our BLACK and brown communities instead of paying individual
#boscops
more than the MAYOR. Contact him too!
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After campaign promises to abolish BRIC and the gang database,
@MayorWu
wants to give BRIC the $850k to expand staffing that we successfully blocked 3 years ago...actually she wants to give them $850k times 3.
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BIG NEWS:
@BTU66
just passed a resolution in support of the
#DefundBosCops
campaign and calling on the removal of all police from Boston Public Schools!
@YJPUBoston
@BOSTONYAMI
@justicehealing
@SistersUnchaind
@reep_ace
!!!
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Boston Action Alert: TOMORROW Thur 6/4 at 10am
@BOSCityCouncil
hearing on $2.7m of grants to BPD on top of $414m budget. Demand that they decline this $$$! Testify and contact CC to redirect funds to the Black & POC community! Toolkit here
#DefundPolice
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OK really
@BostonGlobe
how could you write this with multiple comments from law enforcement and elected officials but not a mention of how
@BTU66
passed a resolution calling for the removal of school police from
@BostonSchools
?
#DefundBosCops
Key voices in Boston say the very presence of any police officers in schools undermines the educational mission.
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Youth led protest demanding that the city
#DefundBoscops
!
More than 1,000 protesters shutting down Washington Street as they march through Boston from Roxbury to City Hall. They’re asking for at least a 10% decrease in funding for the Boston Police Dept to reallocate $ to programs to make communities more equitable. Details on
@boston25
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After 46 days, thousands of voices, and a visit to her home, Senator Warren is saying extend the CEASEFIRE.
She still needs to work towards these demands: permanent ceasefire, aid to Gaza, end the siege & occupation of Palestine, and no more weapons or aid to Israel.
My statement on hostage releases, humanitarian aid and cease-fire agreement:
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If you're outraged by Mayor Wu sending BPD to local schools to brutalize those protesting the genocide of Palestinians, get on down to her coffee hour at Horatio Harris Park in Roxbury at 9:30am today!
This morning, I was violently assaulted & arrested by riot police for participating in a peaceful encampment to protest
@EmersonCollege
’s complicity in the Gaza Genocide. Emerson allowed its students to be brutalized, we will never forget this.
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We just passed the facial recognition ban with a UNANIMOUS VOTE!!! Amazing work with our friends
@Join_SIM
@UnafraidBTU
@ACLU_Mass
on the
#PressPause
campaign and so much more to come! Keep watching for the budget vote...
#DefundBosCops
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🚨 260 former staff call on
@SenWarren
to demand ceasefire, advocate for releasing hostages and 1200 Palestinian detainees, support Palestinian right to self-determination and more!
Keep using
@USCPR_
tools to call your electeds!!! 🚨
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Hey
@marty_walsh
and
@MattOMalley
, these men claiming to be ICE agents stopped a Black man jogging in West Roxbury and asked to see his tattoos and ID. This is why we need to end BRIC and
#DefundBosCops
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Today we joined
@jm_collective
at the American Mathematical Society’s annual Joint Mathematics Meeting and disrupted the NSA’s table at their career fair! We demand AMS stop providing the NSA space to recruit. /1
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We just denied BRIC the $850k grant from last year that would have added 6 new analysts!!! The community did that!! That's the grant that launched
#DefundBosCops
last year!! And yes we will go on to delete the database and abolish BRIC 🔥🔥🔥
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Boston Ride for Palestine
February 10: 11am ride and 12pm rally
Join us in demanding
@MayorWu
end the deadly exchange! Ban Boston police from Israeli training!
In solidarity with the Gaza Sunbirds
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Genociders on a podcast together! They're excited for electric busses to prevent kids from asthma attacks here while they both voted to send $14 billion more for Israel to slaughter Palestinian kids.
Tomorrow on the Ed Markey Podcast we’re talking all things clean, green Massachusetts with my partner
@SenWarren
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Re: the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act the House just passed, establishing new DHS, DOJ, FBI offices. Increasing $$$ and infrastructure for law enforcement will not address white supremacist violence.
More from
@attackerman
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Hey
@MayorWu
! In our policing questionnaire you said you'd make regular updates to the public on police contract negotiations. But we've heard Boston Police union say you've started and met 3-6 times already 👀
Can you clarify the timeline? And how can community weigh in ASAP?
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The AMS chose to kick us out instead of kicking out the NSA, an institution that surveils Black, Muslim, and immigrant communities!
@amermathsoc
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City council are you on the side of the youth?
@BOSCityCouncil
will you stand with us to
#DefundBosCops
by 10% tomorrow?
#BlackLivesMatter
#bospoli
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Havard NLG hosts The Terror of Antiterrorism Laws with
@kamaufranklin
@fatemaaaahmad
@sparrowmedia
@ashahshahani
in person & online! We've warned against expanding instead of dismantling counterterrorism laws and now it's impacting
#StopCopCity
Zoom reg:
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Tell Mayor Wu, Drop the Charges & End the Deadly Exchange!
Protestors disrupted state of the city, demanding
@MayorWu
ban Boston Police from Israeli training. Wu said "this is democracy at work" as BPD removed disruptors and arrested 20 ppl outside while the event continued.
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Re: NSC & Patriot Front in Boston. It is futile to demand that law enforcement, a main pillar of systemic racism, respond to white nationalism. The DA, police, BRIC, etc are not a solution. Here are some Do's and Don'ts for Massachusetts folks.
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Palestinians need you to stop funding the 75 year genocide. Are you going to sign off on another $14 billion to Israel?
The cease-fire was working. 100+ hostages were released, humanitarian aid started reaching Palestinians in need, and civilians were safe from harm in both Israel and Gaza.
All the parties must work to resume this cease-fire and build on it to create a lasting peace.
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Join us on Monday, Jan 9th 3:00 PM at Cambridge City Hall to support the Bangladeshi Association of New England (BANE) and his family in protesting his unjust killing by CPD. More actions and demands to follow in the upcoming days.
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#DefundBosCops
Week of Action - Tell Marty, Defund BPD, Invest in Community!
@marty_walsh
is revising the FY2021 budget and must cut at least 10% from BPD. Move that $40 million from BPD overtime to BLACK and Brown community. Check toolkit at for actions
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Disgusting to feign concern about the genocide and then vote to send more bombs
@SenWarren
. It is not cowardice but complicity.
I asked Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts about Israel's campaign in Rafah "They should not be attacking Rafah, period."
When asked if it would affect her vote on the security package: "Right now, the security package is about getting money to Ukraine."
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We’re live tweeting from the “city officials meeting” at the MLK School in Cambridge on the unjust police murder of Sayed Arif Faisal.
#justiceforfaisal
We anticipate they will be defensive of the police and vague in their responses to cover themselves up.
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So
@EdforBoston
is skipping today's Boston City Council meeting to visit a country charged with genocide
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Join us Sunday 1/29 @ 1PM with BANE and
@ForFlavia
for a
#JusticeForFaisal
march. We will be starting at Somerville High School, and ending at Mystic Mural. We encourage folks to bring flowers to place at the mural in his memory.
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Exciting news! City Council is holding off still on the BRIC grant of $850k until we get more answers! This is pretty unheard of and a good step towards a NO vote. Please checking out the toolkit at and keep signing this petition
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It's Boston Police Budget day and it's still
#DefundBosCops
!
@MayorWu
is giving them the same budget and MORE cops. What will
@BOSCityCouncil
do differently this year to address the long standing community demands to move money from policing to real wellness for
#bospoli
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(1) His janaza is being held at ISBCC Roxbury, Sat Jan 7 at 1:00 PM.
(2) Please share and donate to the gofundme to support the family and funeral costs.
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So
@CambridgePolice
positioned snipers across from Elbit 12/14 in anticipation of a Palestine protest that didn't happen. On 12/13 city council didn't have quorum to discuss the inquest results from Cambridge police killing Sayed Arif Faisal in January
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🚨LOCAL ACTIONS FOR PALESTINE TODAY!
Boston City Council considering two resolutions as we watch the genocide of Gaza - ceasefire or support of Israel.
1. Email and call them ASAP demanding support for ceasefire!
2. Show up at their meeting at noon at City Hall Today!
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We're watching the first BPD budget hearing and waiting to testify for
#DefundBosCops
BPD was late and is already evading questions about staffing. We're demanding to cut BPD's $$$ and freeze their hiring!
#BosBudget
#mapoli
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The NSA is the largest employer of mathematicians in the US, and granting them space at a job fair for the nation’s largest association of mathematicians only increases their access to talent and furthers their racist, colonialist, and imperialist work.
#mathminusmilitarism
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We're very disappointed to see
@MayorWu
backtrack on the gang database after saying MULTIPLE times in the election that you support abolishing. We hope you meet with us & the many orgs & impacted community members, not just w/ BPD to discuss ASAP.
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Today we learned there's a whole non-profit that gives additional funding to the Boston Police Department! How much more money do they need???
#DefundBosCops
@CampbellforD4
@RicardoNArroyo
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🧵on Boston gang database news: We agree w/ the court that it's an "erratic point system built on unsubstantiated inferences" and we know it harms Black & Brown people. It's time for
@MayorWu
to delete the database and abolish BRIC!
#bospoli
#defundboscops
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ALL OUT FOR GAZA
ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE
SUNDAY 2PM @ COPLEY SQUARE
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Remember the grants that kicked off the
#DefundBosCops
campaign? City Council is reviewing them again this week - let them know that
@bostonpolice
don't need another million $$$ to surveil and police Black, Muslim, and immigrant communities! to learn more!
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In response to
#January6th
, Biden is increasing policing & surveillance instead of really addressing white supremacy. There's no equal opportunity surveillance, expanding DHS & DOJ will expand white supremacist violence.
CVE cannot be rebranded.
#StopCVE
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Reminder for
@SenWarren
and
@SenMarkey
before you vote to fund the genocide in Palestine
Outside Elizabeth Warren’s office
"Warren, Warren, you can't hide. You're signing off on genocide"
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Reminder that we are a very very very small organization trying to do big things like
#DefundPolice
with support of other small orgs...so please forgive all the typos and confusion! We never did budgeting work before this week but are so thrilled that everyone is stepping up!!
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Sayed Arif Faisal should be here with us today. There is no court finding that changes what we all know - he should not have been killed. Please show up with us tomorrow to support each other in this difficult moment as the inquest report has been released.
Justice for Faisal!
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Boston City Council will prob approve all surveillance tech today (BPD's gang database, drones, ShotSpotter to BPS cameras & more) with no review or scrutiny. We are disgusted but not surprised! BPD didn't even produce all of the required info on this tech
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Not only did
@MayorWu
vote against this grant when she was on the council, she voted against even considering the grant when Baker forced it out of Andrea Campbell's committee. Now she's bringing it back quadrupled tomorrow to give BRIC $3.4 million.
After campaign promises to abolish BRIC and the gang database,
@MayorWu
wants to give BRIC the $850k to expand staffing that we successfully blocked 3 years ago...actually she wants to give them $850k times 3.
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New demands from
#DefundBosCops
for you! Take action this week by calling
@MayorKimJaney
and
@BOSCityCouncil
to tell them our community demands: Move $120m to our people and freeze BPD's hiring! Learn more and take action at:
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Action Alert! The youth of
@yjpubos
are leading the final rally to ensure
@BOSCityCouncil
and
@marty_walsh
#DefundBosCops
and
#FundCommunity
! CC votes on Wednesday so please join us Tuesday 3pm @ City Hall Plaza to say now is the time to shift $$$ to Black and Brown Boston!
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We are disgusted that in the face of years of blatant discrimination
@MayorWu
and the Boston City Council have reversed their own decision and will give BRIC $3.4m to expand.
Thank you all for speaking out. We will continue organizing.
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but
@marty_walsh
you've already got federal officers working with the Boston Police department both in BRIC and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. They harass Black, Muslim, and Immigrant people regularly alongside BPD!
#DefundBosCops
Finally, I have to address an issue that is deeply troubling to Bostonians and Americans everywhere. We’ve seen footage of unidentified federal officers aggressively detaining protestors in Portland, Oregon.
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#EidMubarak
! May this Eid bring us renewed strength in our fight for a world free of occupation, incarceration & punishment from Boston to
#SheikhJarrah
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#DefundBosCops
Campaign response to
@marty_walsh
FY21 budget approved by
@BOSCityCouncil
The full text of the statement is available in the toolkit at
#bospoli
#mapoli
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We're at Boston city council to testify on community demands for the police contract negotiations: decrease the budget, cut overtime, and stop the monopoly on details! Every year we hear the city can't deliver police changes without changing the CBA so now is the time to deliver.
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Over 40 orgs joined us and our
@stopcve
coalition to urge
@POTUS
to stop promoting & expanding counterterrorism policing and surveillance programs in response to white supremacist violence, especially the Islamophobic CVE/CP3 program
#UnitedWeStand
🧵
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⚠️ Boston Police Contract News ⚠️
Mayor Wu & BPPA reached an agreement on a contract for June 2020-June 2025. We'll assess how it compares to our demands at
The city plans to rush this through City Council by December 13.
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Last year we told
@BOSCityCouncil
to cut funding to the Boston Police, starting with declining an $850k grant to BRIC. That grant was to hire more BRIC analysts to label our people as gang members, spy on our communities, and feed info to FBI, DHS & ICE
#bospoli
#defundboscops
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Flynn starts the vote asking councilors to be civil. Yes please be civil as you vote to surveil, incarcerate, and deport our loved ones.
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We're not even sure why
@MayorWu
included the BPD gang database to be approved when she promised a dozen times campaigning to get rid of it. But you all should ask her!
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Good morning! Have you let
@marty_walsh
know what you think of BPD's budget yet? Send him an email through or call him! Tell him to
#DefundBosCops
and invest in communities as he writes the new budget this week.
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Deleting some people from the gang database won't shift these percentages
@MayorWu
. A new commissioner doesn't change the court ruling that the database is erratic. A weekly roundtable w/ law enforcement about youth undermines the law to stop sharing info about youth w/ police.
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Credit to
@BDSBoston
for a long running campaign on the Puma HQ!
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW!
PUMA supports Israel's genocide of Palestine so we're here on
#BlackFriday
in Somerville, MA because Boston Stands with Palestine!
@SenWarren
@SenMarkey
@WhipKClark
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.
@BOSCityCouncil
has a hearing Thursday on whether to approve a $1.8 million grant to
@bostonpolice
for "community safety" programming targeted at local youth.
#DefundThePolice
#BosCops
don't need this $$$, black folks do!
#bospoli
#mapoli
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Join us Thursday to demand that Boston end the
#DeadlyExchange
and
#DropTheADL
! Settler colonial police and occupation forces should not be exchanging tactics of oppression. We believe in care and community, not cops!
#bospoli
#boscops
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We just got 400 pages of BRIC surveillance of Palestine protests from October to December.
Demand that
@MayorWu
stop policing Palestinian liberation during her townhall tonight! Ban the deadly exchange and abolish BRIC!
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Thank you
@CampbellforD4
for clarifying that the Shannon grant from EOPSS has not been approved yet by CC for BPD, BPD has already promised the funding to community groups. Community groups deserve funding, and we imagine it could come from elsewhere in the $414 million budget.
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If you live in any of the nine cities BRIC surveils and want to stop its expansion, take action with us!
Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Quincy, Revere, Somerville, Winthrop
#mapoli
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There's a whole lot of
#DefundBosCops
content and actions coming out soon 👀 so you definitely want to follow our account and our tagged friends!
#bospoli
#mapoli
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Did you know Massachusetts ABOLISHED the State Police in 1875? Just 10 years after it was formed, people were tired of their alcohol being taken and mad that the constables killed a brick-thrower during a raid on a gambling den. Learn more fun facts at:
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Today's councilors must not undo this win that
@AndreaForAG
championed. BRIC and the gang database have to go and it's beyond disappointing that Mayor Wu has not done anything on this.
@Ruthzee
@Tania4D7
@VoteWorrell
@RicardoNArroyo
@CllrKendraLara
@LizBreadon
@juliaforboston
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You should be watching this right now! Councillors are getting asked directly about
#DefundBosCops
demand to cut BPD budget by AT LEAST 10% and a demand to remove police from BPS by the youth of FTP collective.
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Six transportation advocacy orgs come out against BRIC!
@EOPSS
wants to give BRIC $3.4m to increase traffic policing and collaboration with state police but cops don't make streets safer!
@MayorWu
@LizBreadon
@Gigi4District1
@RonDurk
@Ruthzee
@VoteWorrell
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BPD rep is talking about how the community needs support because they have minimum wage jobs, but also one of these grants includes $350k for police OVERTIME. We need to move funding to support our people rather than doubling salaries of police officers.
#DefundPolice
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Reminder to join us in supporting BANE for tomorrow's
#JusticeForFaisal
protest!
Time: Sat Jan 14, 1 PM
Location: Harvard Square, T Station
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We are letting out a sigh of relief as the
#MuslimBan
was repealed last night! We have a long way to go in overcoming white supremacy, but we hope you all can find a moment of rest and reflection on how your support of MJL contributed to this moment. 1/3
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We're out here with our movement family! Follow them and tune in!
#DefundBosCops
We delivered the People’s Budget to Mayor Walsh!
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Hi
@bostonpolice
! 30 organizations and hundreds of people told you to pull out of the CVE program targeting Somali youth. Now DHS has created a whole track modeled after it in their new Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grants. TVTP = CVE 2.0
#StopCVE
#EndTVTP
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Action alert! Tell
@MayorKimJaney
and
@HHSBOS
that we need care not cops before they create a pilot for responding to mental health crises. Take action at
#DefundBosCops
#bospoli
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FBI home visits are common for Muslims and Arabs every day but will spike in moments like this for them and everyone organizing and speaking out for Palestine.
Call our friends
@nlgmass
at 617-433-8353 if you are approached for questioning. And read through the KYR tips below!
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Round 3, Final Call for
#DefundBosCops
community testimony! This Monday we are focusing on Black, Indigenous, POC, and youth visions for our community. Share your dream for a future where we are safe and supported! Sign up at
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On this 20 year anniversary of 9/11, let’s be clear: ending the War on Terror = dismantling Islamophobia. From ending CVE globally to defunding the police + pentagon, we must uproot the foundations of Islamophobia -- not reform the policies that uphold it.
#20YearsSince
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A ton of state police, four fire trucks, and BPD at downtown Boston to raid the Emerson encampment!
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Sign this if you're in Boston Brookline Cambridge Chelsea Everett Quincy Revere Somerville or Winthrop and want to stop BRIC from policing Black Muslim and immigrant communities!
@BOSCityCouncil
got 1000s of emails but lets remind them to Defund BRIC.
Remember the grants that kicked off the
#DefundBosCops
campaign? City Council is reviewing them again this week - let them know that
@bostonpolice
don't need another million $$$ to surveil and police Black, Muslim, and immigrant communities! to learn more!
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